[OPEN] Tell us about accessing CAMHS

Healthwatch Trafford, on behalf of the 10 Healthwatch in Greater Manchester are researching young people's mental health and wellbeing. We know there are long waiting times for young people to be seen and we want to investigate how this is affecting them. Our findings will help decision-makers in statutory NHS and Care services, as well as in the education and voluntary sectors, to effectively prioritise services. 

We have a launched a survey to gather young people's personal experiences, as well as a separate survey open to parents and carers for them to share their experience of supporting their children. We want to know more about the pathway to accessing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), as well as the Autism/ADHD diagnostic paths. 

If you're a child aged 13 and over who started looking for support within the past 2 years, you can take part in the survey below:

Children and young people's survey link

If you're a parent or who has supported a child or young person trying to access care, please use the link below:

Parents and carers survey link

Feel free to be completely open and honest. The information collected will always be anonymised, which means that it will not be possible for someone to identify you by your answers. Please take care not to include any personal details in free text boxes (e.g. name and address).

As part of this project, we are also going to survey professional staff faced with pressures of the increasing numbers of young people, to ensure we have a full picture of what's going on.